18. VIII. 1920

Comrade Sergo! Inessa Armand is leaving today. I ask you not to forget your promise.

You must telegraph to Kislovodsk, give orders to arrange for her and her son properly, and see to it that these orders are carried out. Without verification of execution, they won't do a damn thing.

Please answer me by letter, and if possible, also by telegram: "received letter, will do everything, will set up verification properly."

I earnestly ask you, given the dangerous situation in the Kuban, to establish contact with Inessa Armand so as to evacuate her and her son, if necessary, in good time to Petrovsk and Astrakhan, or to arrange for them (her son is ill) in the mountains near the Caspian coast, and in general to take all measures.

Regarding Persia and so forth, write from time to time.

You inform us too rarely.

Greetings! Your Lenin

First published in 1942

in Lenin Collection XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript